Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

Daisaku Ikeda

• Life
• War
• Humanity
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• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

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• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

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• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

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• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

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• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

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• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

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• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

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• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

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• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

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• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

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• Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.

  

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• Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

  

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• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • War
  • Humanity